Tuesday, September 13, 2011

HTC Desire Z, strange keyboard shortcuts

So, latest HTC Desire Z update (to 2.3.3) seems to cause weird issues on the 'real' keyboard, and the behaviour is intermittent.

For example, you'll be typing an SMS, and when you press certain keys, other apps will open.  Which is annoying.  Curiously, rebooting the phone solves it, until a few days later and it'll start doing it again.

First off, it's not in the Settings->Keyboard shortcuts preferences!

Look in Settings->Applications, and choose 'Quick Launch'.  A handful of shortcuts are defined - b, e, g and s - by default. You can clear the assigned ones by long press on the row.  Solved...

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for posting this, this has been driving me up the wall since the update.

Anonymous said...

THANK YOU! This has been driving me nuts for a few days! I couldn't figure out what was happening.

Thank you.
~Lianne

Anonymous said...

same here, thanks dude!
this update really sucked...

Anonymous said...

Here to show my appreciation too. THANK YOU.

Bas Grolleman said...

If you still want to use the shortcuts. (I use them for Apps that require Qwerty anyway, like mail)

If it starts doing this, press the "search" button on your keyboard, because that's the key that's "stuck"

Anonymous said...

THANK YOU!!! That's been annoying me for months!

Anonymous said...

Godsend, cheers very much chief. Was literally knockin my pan in.

will.i.am,not said...

Thanks loads mate,thought my ribbon was going,
Dave W

Anonymous said...

Bit late reply, but I just run into this problem ... And thank you very much for the solution!